Averey
Averey was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,081 among girls’ names; 677 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Averey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Averey?
#12,081 among girls’ names, 2025
Averey fell from #3,926 in 2015 to #12,081 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.3 to 4.4 per million.
63 babies in 2013, the peak
Averey peaked in 2013, when 63 babies were given it (53 girls, #3,083 among girls’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,081 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,246 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,747 | 7 | #9,929 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,651 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,665 | 5 | #12,202 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,451 | 6 | #10,928 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,545 | 8 | #8,899 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,845 | 11 | #7,144 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,646 | 9 | #8,206 |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,926 | 8 | #8,820 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 32 | #4,474 | 5 | #12,278 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,083 | 10 | #7,583 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,261 | 11 | #7,099 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,257 | 11 | #7,046 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,578 | 14 | #6,061 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,847 | 9 | #8,360 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,169 | 8 | #9,076 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,919 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,898 | 11 | #6,948 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,539 | 10 | #7,151 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,335 | 10 | #7,015 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,095 | 10 | #6,765 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,349 | 6 | #9,494 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,355 | 7 | #8,410 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,612 | 5 | #10,503 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,457 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,395 | 6 | #8,568 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,971 | 5 | #9,384 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,667 | 5 | #8,894 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Averey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 677 Americans recorded as Averey, 70% are girls and 30% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Averey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Averey, and how old are they?
An estimated 670 Americans named Averey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 10 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 580 people named Averey (391 women and girls, 189 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 606 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Averey?
Averey is a less common spelling of Avery: SSA has recorded 677 Averey and 236,886 Avery since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 264,523 babies since 1880, Averey is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 7,119 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Averey
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Averey and names like it
- Compare Averey and AveryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The names of Generation ZMost people named Averey alive today were born 1997-2012.
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